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		Confusion on April 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Tim... At the end, it appears the author doesn't really get it. He thinks there was luck involved: Ultimately, this hack involved [..] and a little bit of luck. Someone figured out the voting URL protocol. [..] and a member discovered the ’salt’ There is no luck involved in figuring out the 'protocol' and discovering this kind of 'salt'.

dhs on April 16, 2009 [–]

I believe that "luck" alludes to one of them finding out that voters using an IPv6 address wouldn't be blocked (IPv4 sites got blocked if they voted for the same candidate more often than once every 13 seconds).

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